Development Services Review. Final Report. Zucker July 2016

Morgan Hill, California

Zucker Systems

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Staff has prepared marketing materials identifying key development

opportunities to facilitate acquisition and/or development of economically

important areas in the City, which are available on the City’s website; and

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Staff is drafting an Economic Blueprint, which is an Action Plan that will

identify a vision and set clear strategies to develop jobs and facilitate place-

making for the city of Morgan Hill over the next 5 to 10 years.

INDINGS AND

ECOMMENDATIONS

Opportunities for Improvement

Opportunities for improvement are described throughout this report.

Table 1 summarizes the 160 recommendations and opportunities for improvement. To

assist the reader, each summarized recommendation is cross-referenced to the page on

which the supporting text appears. Although all of these recommendations are

important, each was given a priority number in order to help the City with

implementation. There are 53 priority number one recommendations, 82 priority

number two recommendations and 25 priority number three recommendations. We

assume that existing staff will implement many of the recommendations and the cost,

except for new staffing, generally should be absorbed through greater efficiency.

To further help the City and departments in implementation, we have also coded all

the recommendations. “Phase One Actions” are recommendations, which we believe

should be completed in the first nine months. “Phase Two Actions” we believe should

be completed within 18 months.

There are 111 Phase One Action recommendations. Some of these are given priority

1, 2 or 3. However, that does not mean that only the priority 1 recommendations

should be addressed. There are 49 Phase Two Action recommendations. The

departments should develop a detailed implementation plan with time targets for these

recommendations.

For each recommendation, we also indicate a responsible party for implementation.

Table 1

Table of Recommendations

Recommendation

Responsibility

Page

Priority

Phase One

Actions

Phase Two

Actions

Agree on an implementation plan

City Manager and Assistant City

Manager

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